Urso: my internet is a bit flaky lately, just drops for likke 5 seconds from time to time, enough to kick me off

Garrion: ahh, so not just with MT then?

Urso: na, is everything

Garrion: have any ideas for THS character while we wait?

Urso: well Tristan sort of maybe took ita bit, but was gonna do a engineer/mechanic type with cybernetic arm that has all his tools and has a bionic eye as well, so can see micro fractures and stuff

Urso: still using the GURPs rules right?

Garrion: nice concept

Garrion: yep

Urso: turn on your IM, I’ll send you very rough sheet so far

Garrion: just not cinematic like this camp… a bit more grounded (within the tech of the setting)

Garrion: oh forgot i had it off when i reboot

Garrion: that probably why no one here

Sefiros has connected.

Sefiros: yo

Garrion: you can take more disadvantages to give you some more points… you can have up to -50, not counting what is in a racial template

Garrion: hoiwdy sef

Urso: ya, I know

Urso: anything there you think don’t need or should have?

Garrion: what is mundane background?

Urso: think is just not really coming from anything fancy…

Garrion: well you have several things good for spacers, all looks good as a starting point

Urso: ya, is just a first shot at it… will refine it more I suppose.. what sort of weapons ? armor? do we use?

Garrion: i was working on some stuff while at work today, i have modified the starting senario a bit and may help some of you with creation ideas

Sefiros: i havent messed with anything, i been too busy nerding out over the pluto flyby

Garrion: weapons and armor would not be expected by anyone unless you were a soldier in the military or some security officar or something.\

Urso: ah, not even for self protection?

Garrion: this is not Pathfinder or traditional fantasy where everyone has a weapon on their side and wears some sort of armor every day

Urso: ok

Garrion: no, security may were nanoweave vests when on duty, but this would be very comparable to modern day except for the tech and some of the memes

Urso: ok

Garrion: you may carry a weapon but only if you are liscenced to do so or is [art of your job

Garrion: that is LAWFULLY

Garrion: wearing armor that is detectable would draw serious attention

Urso: will probably just wear a G suit or whatever a engineering person might wear

Garrion: in the future if you deviate from your primary focus (being a ship’s mechanic) you may take up wearing armor if you and your team are breaking into a secure facility and expect some possible trouble, but that would be outfitting for a special mission, not everyday wear

Garrion: let me grab my notes and give you the changes to the starting story

Garrion: you are not colonists, that idea was scrubbed when i realized the speed of ships and the distance to Alpha centari…. it would take over 2000 years

Sefiros: lol yeah

Sefiros: i thought so :-p

Sefiros: im kind of a space geek, thats why i brought that up

Taragnor has connected.

Urso: maybe a planet witha couple of moons which are colonized

Sefiros: THS is basically sol system focused for the most part i always thought

Garrion: instead you are gathered together to go explore an anomaly in the Oort cloud, a journey which is much more achievable but will still take many years. You are a small team (10 people) who have been selected/volunteer for the mission. The team is a combination of scientists, technicians and military personel (just in case there is some trouble, but should not number over 4 out of the 10)

Sefiros: its been ages since i read it tho, so im rusty im going off vague memories

Garrion: yes it is, but there is mention of exploration into neigboring systems

Sefiros: the oort cloud is a hypothetical sphereical body of comets and other icy debris that is theorized to surround the entire solar system

Garrion: the mission itself is really not important other than a launch point because it will never come to pass

Sefiros: its way out there

Urso: dun dun dunnnn

Garrion: yes about 5000 AU

Sefiros: right

Sefiros: like i said, i know my astronomy :-p

Sefiros: im an amaetuer astroner for a hobby

Garrion: Sef will really get off on this setting

Garrion: well really they say 10,000 AU for most the mass but it has a wide breadth so you could enter it much sooner

Sefiros: its way out there

Sefiros: mostly people get it mixed up with the kuiper belt

Sefiros: the kuiper belt is basically like a 2nd asteroid belt past pluto

Garrion: i was considering the Kuiper belt but it is fairly easy to reach and watch and wanted something a little more “unknown” for the mission

Sefiros: then way beyond that is a sphere cloud of shit called the oort cloud

Sefiros: that extends almost half a light year etc

Sefiros: basically suppose to be left over debris from when the sun formed via solar nebula

Garrion: yep, pluto is a kuiper object along with lots of others

Urso: everyone else havea basic idea yet on chars for that?

Sefiros: well theres some debate over that now actually since the flyby heh

Sefiros: pluto’s surface is only 100 million years old

Sefiros: thats been the big surprise

Sefiros: it was pose to be a billion year old smooth ice ball from primordial times

Sefiros: but it has active geology, which has basically caused a big shit storm

Garrion: so this will allow you to be more mission specific and not just general colonist…. the anomaly features some sort of unknown energy readings

Sefiros: has huge mountains, like the rockies, cept made of ice

Garrion: but like i said it is not that important but may play into future adventures

Sefiros: ice at those temps is like steel

Sefiros: water ice that is

Tabris has connected.

Sefiros: anyways

Garrion: yepo, the recent flyby

Tabris: Heh, was wondering if we were playing tonight, no messages

Garrion: yeah, just been here chatting some

Garrion: Cedric pointed out i didn;t have my IM up

Sefiros: anybody here into “True Detective” on hbo?

Tabris: Nah

Sefiros: ha i know you aint

Sefiros: if it aint animated, you dont watch it :-p

Tabris: lol

Sefiros: “animated in japan” i should add :-p

Tabris: Nah I watch Family Guy and American Dad and such

Sefiros grabs chest like Fred Sanford.

Garrion: You are launching your mission from a station near Saturn, the US has a large space station there that the deep space military patrols operate out of

Garrion: i watch GoT and Walkign Dead, that about all

Sefiros: they retofitted iapetus into a real deathstar?

Sefiros: retro-fitted

Tabris: lol

Garrion: haha, not quite

Tabris: Yeah I’ve been wondering about the THS game, I have no clue what to make

Sefiros: i bet theyre gonna tie in something like bohemian grove or some shit

Sefiros: since they mentioned casper heading up north

Sefiros: and the russian river

Tabris: I suppose I should live up to T’s expectations and make the uber combat guy =P

Sefiros: so just the “supernatural” angle is a little late compared to 1st season

Tabris: I thought about being an actual terminator but the templates are way too expensive

Sefiros: hahaha

Sefiros: damn thats funny since T kept joking about you actually making one :-p

Urso: should go full medical guy

Tabris: lol like I said, he automatically assumes that any character I make is going to be a death machine

Sefiros: the 1st quest is destroying skynet? cept this time it really is in the sky?

Sefiros: a converted moon into one giant cpu

Tabris: Like he threw a fit over me putting Weapon and Armor on Yuki-chan, because zomg if Tab takes it then it must be uber

Sefiros: well we did joke about making clones of your char

Sefiros: like literal, clones :-p

Tabris: lol

Taragnor: yeah heh. That’d have been awesome.

Tabris: But yeah I dunno what I want to play, I thought about making an android like KOS-MOS but the body alone is like 170 points for the non-combat humanoid android

Garrion: yep, 200 was set as the limit on purpose… you can pick infomorph but not the most awsome ones, you have to be “normal”

Tabris: Maybe I can play Data or something, lol

Urso: could make a hot shot small ship pilot

Sefiros: just dont go all Lore on us

Tabris: Yeah I should do that just so T can stop his whining about me being a death machine

Sefiros: yeah i mean i figured pilot would be a good fit for you

Tabris: I’ll make a THS version of Colmar that does nothing but make Lore checks

Sefiros: your archetypes seem to fit pilot type well enough

Tabris: And collect holo vids

Taragnor: lol.

Sefiros: lol no i was refering to data’s loco “brother”

Sefiros: he was like a murderous Data

Tabris: Oh, lol

Sefiros: Lore, was his name

Sefiros: he was a like a lunatic fucked up model

Tabris: I dunno, that might be fun…

Urso: well figure we need a small ship pilot, one who pilots the away team ship… then a large ship pilot, who I assume will stay on the ship and be an NPC.. I can be the backup large ship pilot, just in case

Sefiros: he was like all the negative aspects of humanity, as an android

Sefiros: lied, manipulative, psycho, etc

Tabris: How many disadvantage points is “Defective Programming (Psychopath)” worth?

Sefiros: as opposed to spock like

Sefiros: basically if chucky fucked data and they had a baby :-p

Sachi has connected.

Sefiros: brb, gotta get my dunc on

Garrion: a psychopath would not make it very far, they would be deleted very quickly’

Sefiros: just sub in a bottle of rum instead of bourbon from now on T, for my token

Tabris: Maybe I can be like the android on Prometheus and be subtly malicious then

Tabris: Like randomly infect somebody with alien DNA for the lulz

Sefiros: i think they have both mechanical and skinjob droids

Sefiros: ie synthetics

Garrion: any why do you want to be counter productive?

Sefiros: THS is kind of just a big tome of shit

Sefiros: so its hard to remember, its mostly just a fuckton of choices

Tabris: I don’t, I’m just joking about playing something that goes against T’s expectations since he likes to bitch about me playing a combat death machine all the time even though I can actually roleplay =P

Sachi: Hiya!

Garrion: hi sachi

Urso: hey

Taragnor: lol well I figure you’ll end up playing master chief probably Tab :P

Sachi: Could I maybe take a microframe body if I got the variant that has wheels/treads for mobility? I’m still having trouble letting go of wanting to be able to afford the emergent SAI template >.>;

Garrion: ok, fyi we are nearing a chapter end with this camp, you will have a bit of a break to do as you please till some event on the timeline takes place

Tabris: Yeah see this is what I’m talking about, I should just play the medical officer or something until you all get slaughtered in combat and whine about needing more front line support

Garrion: sure, if you have some way to mobilize yourself, not sure how much those features will cost you.. like R2-D2?

Taragnor: lol I don’t think I’ll be whining about needing mroe front line support :P

Urso: more like johnny 5… hehe

Tabris: Number Johnny 5!

Tabris: It is travelling at extreme velocipy!

Garrion: you guys forgetting this camp is not all about combat. Yo may have CONFLICT but it is not a combat-centric campaign

Tabris: I suppose I could play an engineer type, if combat comes up I’ll just grab the nearest pile of scrap parts and throw together a killbot

Garrion: Cedric has the engineer technician role lined up, not that there can’t be 2 on the mission

Garrion: hi Taragnor

Sachi: Hehehe~ YEah, kinda like a cross between R2D2 and like… A desktop PC with tank treads

Tabris: lol yeah at this rate I might end up just playing Master Chief by default =P

Urso: you can be more of computer guy, my guy will be more of a mechanical guy…

Garrion: was telling the others i modified the starting senario a bit to give you a little more focus and make the scenario seem plausable

Tabris: That might work I suppose

Sefiros: LOSLOBOSKICKYOURASS

Sefiros: LOSLOBOSKICKYOURFACE

Sefiros: LOSLOBOSKICKYOURBALLSINTOOUTERSPACE

Tabris: Hahahaha, yesss

Garrion: you are not colonists, that idea was scrubbed when i realized the speed of ships and the distance to Alpha centari…. it would take over 2000 years

Tabris: Man I love those movies

Garrion: instead you are gathered together to go explore an anomaly in the Oort cloud, a journey which is much more achievable but will still take many years. You are a small team (10 people) who have been selected/volunteer for the mission. The team is a combination of scientists, technicians and military personel (just in case there is some trouble, but should not number over 4 out of the 10)

Sachi: Oooo

Tabris: It’s the Reapers isn’t it

Tabris: The Relay activated

Garrion: the mission itself is really not important other than a launch point because it will never come to pass

Sefiros: the atlanteans had a star gate in the oort cloud

Garrion: so this will allow you to be more mission specific and not just general colonist…. the anomaly features some sort of unknown energy readings

Garrion: You are launching your mission from a station near Saturn, the US has a large space station there that the deep space military patrols operate out of

Sefiros: why dont they just build stations on the moons?

Tabris: Evironmental activists

Tabris: Keep Titan pristine!

Sefiros: well there are those types actually

Sefiros: that think that way

Garrion: but like i said it is not that important but may play into future adventures

Sefiros: but im more of the terraform the motherfucker mindset

Tabris: Yeah, if it doesn’t already have some form of indigenous life then fuck it

Tabris: Mine the shit out of it and then terraform what’s left over

Garrion: these are all conflicting memes and part of the setting… are infomorphs “people” do we make the solar system our own or keep pristene?

Urso: having just a pure scientist, perhaps knowledgeable in energy or biology might be good…. I assume no aliens discovered yet?

Sefiros: yeah this is more hard sci-fi cedric

Sefiros: no aliens

Tabris: Yeah that’s another angle I was thinking about, Xenobiologist

Garrion: correct, no aliens

Sefiros: if anything, just microbes on mars, etc

Tabris: We haven’t found them yet, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be prepared for it!

Urso: well yet at leat

Urso: least

Sefiros: yeah i mean xenobiologist is still viable

Sefiros: hell we have them today

Tabris: lol yeah

Garrion: i should say no sentient extrasolar lifeforms

Tabris: Could also double as medical officer

Sefiros: yeah thats better sumation

Tabris: And I could give him some computer skill and whatnot too

Garrion: xenio just means not earth-based

Sefiros: theres prolly microbes or minor life on some of the other planets or moons

Taragnor: thought there weren’t even any aliens in THS heh

Sefiros: but no sentient major shit

Sefiros: well not in the sci-fi sense

Sefiros: but there could be microbes or other realistic type extra-terrestrial life

Sefiros: like pond scum on enceledus etc

Urso: sounds like sef should be the scientist type, hehe

Garrion: right

Tabris: Yeah or some dormant virus cruising around in an asteroid

Tabris: Then we mine it and release a plague

Garrion: haha

Sefiros: theres actually some scientist arguing that in RL tab

Sachi: I wanna be an AI rights activist~

Sefiros: chandra wickramasing

Sefiros: if i spelled that right

Tabris: lol doesn’t surprise me

Sefiros: ever heard of the red rain of indian? check it out one day

Sefiros: india

Sefiros: its pretty weird

Tabris: Panspermia isn’t a completely insane theory since organic molecules and amino acid precursors have been found in space

Sefiros: yeah thats basically what he posits the red rain is

Sachi: It’s a bit of a medium-term goal since I woke up pretty recently

Sefiros: organic shit from something that blew up in the atmosphere

Sefiros: they look like cells, but they cant sequence any dna from em

Tabris: Freaky

Sefiros: theres some disputed shit about them replicating

Sachi: Like, during the voyage kinda recently

Sefiros: thouggh at weird temps and some crazy long rate or something, its been a while since i read the abstract

Sefiros: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe

Sefiros: In 2003, in a letter to The Lancet,10 Wickramasinghe hypothesized that elementary living organisms like the lichen-forming alga spores present in the red rain in Kerala are of extraterrestrial origin,11 and that pathogens as the SARS virus arrived on Earth from deep space carried in asteroids and comets.1213 However, in 2003 this “scientific” hypothesis lacked the necessary evidence required by the medical community with their “evidence-based” tradition for medical hypotheses. Consequently Wickramasinghe was subject to considerable attack in The Lancet letters in subsequent editions.

Sefiros: anyways

Sefiros: so what are we doing tonight?

Sefiros: if we’re gonna play, we better get too it, before im too loaded to type

Garrion: haha, ok

Sachi: I kinda had the idea (back when it was still a colony voyage) that maybe I was gonna try and commandeer the ship in a naive attempt to start a utopia out of reach of the oppressive, biological-run solar system, but end up having to cooperate with the others due to whatever disaster G had planned and give up on being a technocrat

Sachi: Hehe

Garrion: well like i said we are nearing a chapter end, so let’s wrap this up and see where we go from here

Sefiros: well mostly i just didnt like the colonist angle, because my whole interest in THS

Sefiros: is that its hard sci-fi focused on the solar system

Sefiros: which is basically non existent rpg wise

Sefiros: everyone always wants to do some shit somewhere else

Sefiros: the poor sol system gets no love

Garrion: it was just a backstory to use as a launch point…. you will not be leaving the sol system… EVAR, hehe

Sefiros: anywyas, can you give a recap?

Sachi: I think we’ve changed that, I was just trying to express the kind of character I want to play (i.e. a bumbling, mostly harmless SHODAN)

Sefiros: i forgot where we ended last time

Sefiros: you’

Urso: urso saved the day

Sefiros: gonna have some hell of a lot of latency if you’re reach is sol wid

Sefiros: wide*

Garrion: Urso recovered the Morrowfall

Sefiros: it takes like 48 minutes or somethign just for light to read pluto :-p

Sachi: Too good-natured to actually follow through on any threats to rule humanity

Sefiros: hits search button, and 1 hour later results pop up for cell phones on saturn

Tabris: lol

Garrion: You are in the basement and the Morrowfall constantly emits bright light but not dangerous now that Urso has tamed it

Sefiros: tho actually i did read the other day, internet speeds on the moon are pretty good already

Zindal: “So we got the weird sunlight blasting thing that’s supposed to help us do… something. Now what?”

Garrion: Loryc identified some properties of the item also

Sefiros: oh yeah, i didnt remember if we wrapped up and left the dungeon or not

Garrion: you did not leave

Garrion: you are still here

Sefiros: “Run for our lives?” scratches head

Sefiros: “Was the other half of that thing suppose to be in here too?”

Loryc: “As for the former… well the hard part is really keeping the rabbit in the hat.”

Zindal: “We might as well loot the rest of the place while we’re here. No sense in leaving good treasure behind.”

Loryc shrugs.

Loryc: “We should at least check out the rest of the vault area”

Urso heads back down the tunnel, " maybe see where vamp’s come out from?"

Loryc: “Yeah i was kind of curious where they came from actually.”

Loryc: “Given the difficulty we had in getting in here.”

Urso moves up to the north tunnel, " here passage "

Melty: “Yeah, it looks like there’s a bunch more places down here…”

Zindal: “They can turn into gas or something, right? Makes breaking and entering a lot easier.”

Loryc: “Yeah this area is the most heavily guarded so, by logic, the greatest treasure should be down here.”

Garrion: Urso leads the way back

Melty: “We should tear the place apart and steal everything of value.”

Zindal: “I agree with Melty.”

Melty: “For the revolution!”

Urso: (anything special about the tunnel before Urso ?)

Zindal: “For the coin.”

Zindal grins

Garrion: hehe, so much for preserving priceless artifacts

Loryc: “Well you know a lot of that stuff is more valauble if you keep it intact.”

Garrion: it is dark except for your light

Loryc: “As much as I know you enjoy smashing stuff… maybe we can try to smash something without historical significance.”

Melty: “Well… Yeah… I meant tear it apart in the sense of like, being really thorough.”

Garrion: the door is open from the vamp that came out of it

Melty: “Humans are all zealots about hiding shit.”

Urso points, " send fake man down there?"

Zindal: “That’s because other humans like to take it.”

Mina nods to Zindal.

Zindal: Are there torches on the walls anywhere that we can light or something?

Zindal: Or maybe can make one out of the door debris?

Melty: “I don’t get why you can’t just share stuff like we do.”

Garrion: Tristan follows

Urso: ( you sending your guy down the tunnel Loryc?)

Melty: “I mean, hell, you people make coins out of gold and trade them for food and shit. Why would you do that?”

Melty: “Jewelry is way prettier.”

Zindal: “You can’t eat jewelry.”

Zindal: “Or fuck it.”

Mina: “Depends on the shape.”

Zindal: (Can we make a torch for Dunric?)

Zindal: (Or does somebody have one?)

Garrion: he has candle

Melty: “So? That’s not what it’s for, anyway. Just fuck a person instead, why didn’t you think of that?”

Garrion: Zindal and Urso ahev big lights

Zindal: “They usually want money for that. Which is what we use gold for.”

Loryc: (Yeah DUnric has a candlee spell)

Loryc: (I can drop candles for free)

Zindal: Heh, okay

Loryc: (actually wait no its’ a full torch)

Loryc: (I can do a full torch for fre,e,it’s just the sunlight that costs shit)

Garrion: Three large stone sarcophagi stand on the floor of this mausoleum. The carvings on the coffin lids are crude, vaguely depicting faceless humanoids with arms crossed over their chests. Wooden lockers hang on the south wall, behind the stone coffins. A tangle of bones lies scattered throughout the room, while a small stack of ribs and femurs that bear intricate scrimshaws sit on the lid of the central sarcophagus.

Melty: “Wait, you guys have to pay for it?”

Melty: “Every time?”

Zindal: “Well, married people or people in love supposedly do it for free… Though there are still the dates and gifts and taking care of children and so on… So it still costs money either way.”

Loryc: “There are ways around it.”

Loryc smirks.

Dunric IV returns to the group and informs them that he discovered three sarcophagi

Tristan: “well, if you could teach them to throw lighting then it would be a Melty”

Melty: “Yes, exactly. Our tool against the oppressors! And, like, that thing we’re supposed to use it to destroy or whatever.”

Mina: you know you’re drunk when you head bang to the Xenogears OST

Urso: ( we head back to town I guess?)

Garrion: well you are IN town

Loryc: (heh well lets just go back to our residences? I mean I’m not sure where to go from here other than to attack house drovenge)

Garrion: but if you mean exit the lodge i think so

Loryc: (that seems to kinda be the next target that we know of)

Loryc: (Actually as we exit I’m gonna turn us all invis

Urso: " head to rooms and rest?"

Loryc: (So we can sneak out of there without being detected)

Loryc: “Yes, I’ll make us all invisible as we leave the lodge so we can escape without being detected.”

Garrion: ok, or so you hope

Zindal: Yeah, I’m good for wrapping up for tonight

Garrion: Tristan can turn self

Tristan: I’m actually already invisible

Tristan: regains 3 fatigue, and now has 16 FP.

Tristan: receives -3 fatigue, and now has 13 FP.

Garrion: ok, give me something you want to do for the next week in game time, you don;t seem to have any iminent threats at the moment

Mina: just make up Emeralda for THS sachi

Melty: Hehe

Mina: tho that body would prolly cost 500pts

Melty: Probably more than that

Tristan: (let’s go take out that priest that dipped us in acid… or, let’s put a couple rivals against each other)

Zindal: Haha

Garrion: Sachi, what time frame for us starting your game?

Mina: wasnt sure if you actually played the original Xeno

Tristan: (kicks the bees nest as it is)

Mina: i know tab has

Urso: Urso will enlist Lory to find that DR necklace he looked for last time

Melty: Pffff who the hell do you think I am :3

Melty: Hmmm

Mina: a voice in my head?

Zindal: I’ve been wondering about starting Sachi’s game too

Melty: Maybe like 3 weeks-ish? Tops? We’re doing a group project in my C# class right now but after then it’ll be over and then I only have one class next term and it’s SUPER easy

Garrion: This is really the best place for us to pause here. We have a break in the action as you have recovered the artifact and now just have to find out who wanted it in the first place

Loryc: heh well figure we should all have chars done pretty soon hopefully

Loryc: the we can start it whenever Sachi is ready

Mina: oh yeah for T, who argued with me about Batman vs the Doctor

Mina: they meet in the new lego game, so suck it :-p

Mina: the batman cant hang with the doctor man, the doctor does batman better than batman does batman :-p

Zindal: But do they fight to the death? You can’t ever make a ruling about which one is better until they fight

Mina: well the doctor knows venusian akido i guess technically :-p

Mina: and he kicked robin hoods ass with a spoon!

Zindal: lol

Urso: oh G .. what TL are we in, for that game?

Zindal: TL9 I think

Zindal: For Transhuman Space

Mina: indiana jones in space is my condept basically

Tristan: that whip is going to suck on a spaceship

Mina: monowire pwnage?

Garrion: yes, TL 9 is the “standard” but there is lots of TL10 stuff in the 5th Wave societies

Garrion: so campaign level is TL9 but if you want to use all that TL10 gear without penalty then you should take increased TL

Mina: but actually Tristan

Mina: G changed the premise

Mina: think you showed up after he mentioned that

Tristan: true, monowire would own

Tristan: oh, I did show up after that

Tristan: so, is it really “indiana jones in space” or is there more to it than that?

Mina: lol no

Garrion: yes, you missed the changeup tristan… to make easier i’ll just post a summary of events leading up to the launch on the site

Mina: i was just joking about being the scientist/archaeologist type of char

Tristan: ok sounds good

Tristan: got ya

Mina: tho i should take a monowire just for shits and giggles now

Tristan: totally

Tristan: although, no one is going to pay a dom with a monowire whip for too long… that whole death and all

Zindal: Just have to get a reinforced body

Tristan: yeah, so is anyone going to be an AI?

Zindal: Sachi is

Melty: Meeeeeeeeee

Tristan: sweet

Tristan: love to see how the point spend works

Mina: gives whole new meaning to “mind fuck”

Garrion: in a nutshell though you are a small team (10 people) selected or volunteer for a mission into the Oort Cloud some 4990 AU away to investigate an anomaly with strange enrgy readings… the team is a combination of scientists and more martial skilled people (4 of the 10 max) for protection

Mina: can AI’s be prosts

Melty: My cybershell (physical body) is gonna be mostly comedic relief to start with probably, but I can get more when we get back to civilization and I get some money

Melty: Or maybe I can take over something on our ship >.>

Tristan: we will boldly go where no one has gone before

Urso: na, I"m making a bionic mechanic, has bionic arm with all his tools and stuff in there, and bionic eye so can see microfractures and the like… basically going to be primary mechanic/engineer… secondary pilot

Melty: I’m okay with treating them as just temporary, if it’s something I hacked into instead of buying :3

Garrion: you are people with social lives and skills so do not make a reclusive hermit or sociopath

Tristan: that’s a sweet concept urso

Melty: I’m definitely gonna not be a sociopath, I’m a friendly and outgoing kind of computer

Urso: sort of like poor mans Cyborg

Tristan: I’m thinking a video game geek that is a mechanical engineer that loves trying to make some stuff from video games (like a pip boy)

Zindal: Think I might go with the biologist idea

Mina: im the astronomer, geologist, archaeologist etc

Tristan: sounds like most of us are not going too combat… don’t forget to take a few skills

Melty: AIs have a taboo trait, so I actually am not allowed to take the Megalomania disadvantage (among others)…

Urso: maybe do a bit of a medic or something as well Zindal

Zindal: Yeah that’s the plan

Tristan: or doctor

Zindal: Surgery will be my combat skill, I’ll use it to throw scalpels at carotid arteries

Tristan: like a ths ninja

Melty: Apparently “memetics” is a discipline in THS which makes me want to specialize in that but mostly it’s just because I like Metal Gear Solid

Garrion: remember that “conflict” is a fact of life, but “combat” is not….

Tristan: and a lot of fights are probably done with spaceships

Melty: And memes!

Melty: NANOMACHINES, SON

Mina: or liquoe

Mina: liquor

Mina: nano liquor!

Garrion: yes, memes are a big deal, honestly one i need to read up on more before i can really do a lot with them

Zindal: Thrust vectoring!

Zindal: I need to grab more THS books from somebody, I have like almost nothing that’s on the list of allowed material

Tristan: oh no, I just pictured Zindal with a bionic penis

Zindal: lol

Melty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhMsboqMMzs

Garrion: It would make sense if you are all aligned or at least friendly to the US.. since you are assembling and launching from their station

Tristan: yeah, no point in being terroist

Melty looks for the chart about AI rights

Tristan: so is Melty going to “belong” to someone?

Garrion: the one with each country’s stance?

Zindal: Yeah I think even the US considers a Sapient AI as property

Melty: Yeah hehe

Garrion: hmm, i think it in the 3e book, checking

Tristan: i’m taking robotics… anyone else taking computers?

Melty: I wanna be an Emergent though if I can afford it, so I’ll probably have a Secret (disadvantage)…

Tristan: Or, I could take both… or Melty could be U.S. property

Urso: could be considered part of the ship….

Loryc: heh, I have no idea what I want to be yet. I’ll probably wawit to see what everyone else pics.

Urso: like the robot on Dark MAtter… anyone watch that on SyFy?

Zindal: Page 127 of the THS book

Tristan: cool, heading to bed guys. See you on the forums

Melty: Night night!

Melty: Yeah that’s kinda my idea actually, is that I’m the AI for some part of the ship or some appliance or something and I achieved full self-determination at some point since launch

Zindal: Oh lol, even the US treats Emergent AI as “wild animal” category

Garrion: hmm, AIs are slave or non-person

Melty: I’m pretty sure it makes me delete-on-discovery

Zindal: Yeah, it says if in a bioshell then treat as Abomination

Garrion: a ghost is a citizen though

Zindal: “If discovered by authorities it will be incarcerated or destroyed for the good of society”

Melty: Space tends to be a lot friendlier to emergent AI though, at least the transhuman nations

Garrion: why you want to be AI over ghost? there a preference?

Zindal: Because AI are way cooler

Melty: Because I think it’s cool

Garrion: ok, just wondering

Garrion: well as AI you could “belong” to one of the other PCs

Zindal: The 200 point limitation makes playing one really hard though

Melty: And just like, interesting, to be this digital lifeform

Garrion: SAI or LAI are: Animal/Slave. The entity’s legal status is similar to a pet or domestic animal. It must be under control of a legal owner, or it can be considered a stray and subject to arrest. Neither the law nor public opinion will sanction the entity’s abandonment or actual torture, but they do permit exploitation, laboratory experimentation, resale, or humane destruction.

Garrion: i know… hope i can make it fun for everyone…. i’m kinda indiidated a little and the pressure is on

Melty: Aw, I think it’ll be awesome! THS I mean, not Maid RPG

Melty: I mean I think the latter would be awesome too but that’s not what we’re playing

Garrion: a complete home brew and a setting i’m not 100% familiar with and has some very “alien” concepts

Taragnor: This the first time you ran something non-module?

Zindal: Heh, does it say somewhere what edition a book is

Garrion: yes, i have it in the title on the ones i sent you

Zindal: Well the one I have for the main THS book doesn’t have it

Melty: The main THS book is 3E

Zindal: It just says SJG 6700

Zindal: Oh, so I can’t even use anything in this book? lol

Garrion: otherwise look on the second page of each book and it will tell you in a little box "For use with GURPS 3rd editon or 4th edition

Melty: Changing Times is the conversion guide

Melty: From that to 4E

Melty: Most of the stats in THS are in Changing Times already updated though

Zindal: Ah, okay

Melty: But if there’s other stuff you want, CT has a guide to converting things from 3E to 4E

Garrion: yes, THS 3e setting book is striclt for setting concepts and info… but it has A LOT of it

Melty: There’s some judgment calls though if you’re converting stats so I’d check with G

Garrion: pretty much everything in the 3e books should be converted in the 4e books

Garrion: they were pretty thurough with it

Mina: damn…..

Melty: There’s barely even a difference between the core rules in 3E and 4E, it’s not like D&D

Mina: sorry i been AFK

Melty: The biggest change is ST

Mina: rolling con checks to stay conscious

Mina: what i miss

Garrion: main things are certain weapon stats, how ST works and the costs of stuff…. some ads and disads were altered too

Mina: so wtf is deal, are w estarting THS space or what

Mina: i dont wanna work on one char sheet or another unless i know wtf w’rre doing

Mina: or we doibg sacghi’s game

Garrion: we are doing both

Mina: how? sheecule wise

Garrion: sachi doing hers and i’m doing THS

Mina: sorry, im fucked up as a yard dog

Taragnor: When is THS starting?

Garrion: as soon as possible as far as i’m concerned.. that really depends on what everyone wants

Mina: im not muich for alcohol normally

Mina: but ive had an abscenssed tooth the past week

Mina: ive turbnt into a drunkl

Melty: omg, that sucks

Garrion: we are at a good stopping point in fantasy camp this is a natural break point

Zindal: Ouch, yeah

Mina: onlu way i can manage toget some sleep, is to get drunker than dunc on autrstailian whatever the fuck

Melty: T_T

Mina: T abnd the others will know wtf im taling about lol sorry

Mina: private joke

Melty: Holy shit that suuuuucks, if my mom hadn’t flushed all my leftover vicodin from when I got surgery I’d say I’d hook you up

Garrion: i know you will all need some time with characters… sef maybe a moth or two, lol

Mina: haha

Mina: well ,my guy is most;;yu knowledhes anuaus

Mina: anyways

Mina: sorry. dex penalty is fucking with me :-p

Garrion: i want to consolidate a few details for the launcha nd the setting and get a solid picture of the PCs, since the camp will be built around them

Mina: jeez, she flushed your meds, thats fucjed up sachi

Melty: To be fair I didn’t need them anymore

Mina: well jeez

Mina: goddamn toy’

Mina: you had cancer lol

Mina: wtf es;e excuse could tou neeed

Garrion: i really want the plot cards to be put to good use to introduce interesting elements into the plot

Garrion: not just things that can help me out with this one task

Melty: But yeah, I was gonna use them to

Melty: uh reduce the pain

Melty: of grinding levels in FFXIV

Mina: lol

Mina: the pain of life i was gonna say, but apprently not

Zindal: That’s a bad Sachi, tsk tsk

Zindal: wags finger

Mina: ah come on tab

Melty: \-orz

Mina: ypu pussy fuck

Mina: straifght laced sober coksuslc;er

Zindal: lol

Melty: rofl

Mina: i miss yurath sometimes to be honest

Garrion: so prior to getting the full details on your characters if you could post a short concept on the site it would be great to figure out how you all fit into the world…. like sachi with her EL-SAI

Mina: we’ve never gotten G to experience the madness

Garrion: i actually have

Mina: meh

Melty: Yeah! I’ll get to work on that right away, I’ve really wanted to play a character like that for a long time~

Mina: 2 weeks dont coubnt

Zindal: You only got a small dose

Mina: haha yeah

Garrion: lol, true… that was enough

Mina: let’s play shadows of sefiros :-p

Zindal: Oh god no

Mina: hahaha

Zindal: I’d rather play CoC

Mina: i dunno wtf that camapign would even be

Mina: T?

Garrion: i just remember the shadow realms

Mina: shadow realms?

Mina: wtf tab

Mina: i dont remember any shadow real ms

Zindal: He might be referring to Void space, I’m not sure

Garrion: something about us walking through a desert that was all shadowy, yeah probably that

Melty: You coulda voted for Delta Green if you wanted CoC :3

Garrion: i like Delta Green… the once i played was fun

Melty: That woulda been a lot more serious in tone than this game’s gonna be

Taragnor: What are you asking me?

Mina: thay was the mosr depressing ending for a campaign

Melty: I’ve never played it but it’s on my short list of things I wanna play

Zindal: I only mentioned that as an alternative to Shadows of Sefiros, lol

Melty: I’m not asking you anything T, I’m just teasing Tab

Mina: it was lke, you’re dead, gg bye thanx :-p

Mina: your epilogue sucked dickweed

Zindal: lol yeah

Melty: Yeah that took me by surprise

Zindal: You critted the multiverse

Mina: it was like 10 years of effort

Mina: and poof, fuck you

Mina: fuckin troll

Taragnor: lol.

Mina: let

Mina: restart a yurath game

Mina: i have a long for the past

Taragnor: heh, well the Yurath storyline was over. You guys finished it.

Mina: boo

Mina: finished?

Mina: bah

Melty: Then again, I FULLY expected that to end with my character’s annihilation, but I managed to save my girlfriend and transcend existence somehow

Taragnor: I mean it’s as finished as you can get pretty much lol.

Mina: GG thx bai dont count as finished :-p

Taragnor: I don’t recall saying “thanks” :P

Mina: lol

Mina: yeah more like GG fuck you bai

Melty: Actually Sef if it makes you feel any better, the ending to the Yurath campaign is part of the backstory to my superhero one

Mina: yeah i know

Mina: mostly i just wanted an epilogue

Taragnor: heh, well the epilogue was pretty much that you stopped the sword of Mairyssa, and then you created a new multiverse.

Mina: well sachi did anyways

Mina: i was off jacking off in my own multiverse

Taragnor: lol yeah.

Zindal: lol yeah and Elemar was lost to the Void

Taragnor: pretty much for sef he returned to the void. And that’s what happened.

Mina: i call shenanigans

Garrion: damn shell-tech has a lot of options, i really don;t want o list each one of them ;)

Melty: Hehe

Mina: you went east ion sachi cuz boobs

Mina: damn that was a depressing fucking campaign

Zindal: And yet you want more, lol

Mina: hahaha

Mina: im drunk whart do you expect :-p

Mina: its the masochist

Taragnor: lol well I might run another D&D game at some point. I just don’t thiink it’d be Yurath. Since that storyline was finished.

Mina: Tab keeps steeling my womenz

Taragnor: But I’ve considered doing another d20 fantasy type game.

Mina: get yout own

Mina: bastard

Taragnor: well you stole his wife in Aylanae.

Zindal: Hey man, I can’t help it if I’m a stud

Mina: lol

Zindal: lol he didn’t steal her, I let him have her

Mina: yeah trye i guess

Mina: tho he killed her

Mina: and traumatized me

Taragnor: lol.

Melty: Dude that game was fucked up in every sense of the term

Mina: yeah i aint felt right in the abscence of sef clones

Mina: with the FF7 remake, i gotta make a sef clone to rebalance the universe

Zindal: Yeah that game is the one I kinda want to do over, I’d rather try a different path with Calim than trying to ally with that Toress bitch

Taragnor: Heh, well you should make one in THS.

Taragnor: They got the technology :P

Zindal: And there are plentiful meteors

Melty: But especially in terms of wife murder, incest, and near-total lack of cohesion

Mina: meh

Mina: i should have never gotten you to read the ASOIAF novels

Zindal: Yeah the lack of cohesion was what really killed it for me

Mina: traitor to the cause

Taragnor: Yeah, Sef’s secret mission was going to the Oort cloud to grab a giant meteor to bring back to earth and destroy it.

Melty: Like IIRC I was the only one whose character wasn’t actively working against the rest of the party and/or murderously insane

Mina: lol

Zindal: lol

Zindal: Nah that’s the mysterious energy reading we picked up

Melty: ahaha

Zindal: Sef using the Meteor summon

Taragnor: heh, yeah Aylanae had some problems as a campaign. It was kinda an expiremental format that went a bit too far.

Mina: i liked it, you whiny bitches

Mina: IN ONEBLOW!

Zindal: lol

Mina: you were just jealous :-p

Zindal: Yeah well when you reward people for screwing over the other PCs it kind of leads to more screwing over the other PCs

Melty: Yeah giving us incentives to backstab one another works in Paranoia (that’s another one I wanna try sometime) but in that one it was just like Rift was playing his own game by himself and the rest of us were at cross purposes 100% of the time

Zindal: Yeah heh

Taragnor: hehe… yeah, I sorta overestimated your eagerness to stab each other in the back :P

Mina: id like for G to play in one of our campaigns one of tgese days

Melty: Paranoia would make a great one-shot

Mina: and not 4 sessions

Taragnor: I mean I gave incentives since I assumed the default attitude was cooperation from playing all the D&D and such

Taragnor: But as it turned out… things rapidly got out of hand.

Garrion: my problem is limited time… family life

Zindal: Yeah I tried to get cooperation on the whole “help me murder my wife so I can fuck my sister” thing and you see where that got me

Mina: lol

Melty: Yeah see

Melty: That was his character’s goal in life and in the game

Zindal: Though actually the divorce thing would have worked if Laventa hadn’t gone total yandere

Mina: lol so true

Melty: And my character was like this super cop

Taragnor: well I mean you could have talked her out of doing the murder thing.

Mina: fuck the world, i wat t twinest

Taragnor: YOuj ust kinda chose not to try.

Taragnor: And instead went for going for the murder :P

Zindal: lol I did try and she just got crazier

Taragnor: Well yeah she was a bit unstable.

Mina: yandere?

Zindal: It’s the term for basically “If I can’t have you no one can”

Mina: that bitch was cray cray

Taragnor: I mean she had some definite yandere tendencies, no doubt about that, but it wasn’t guaranteed she’d try to off Sylara if you didn’t go along with her plan.

Zindal: Somebody who’s in love with you to the point of being psychotic

Mina: tendencies? lmao

Mina: that bitch was nuttier than a christmas fruit cake

Zindal: lol yeah, you went way beyond what I intended for her character

Melty: Yeah that sounds about right, more expensive than here but liquor is cheap in this area I think

Taragnor: Ah.

Taragnor: Yeah never had that stuff, I’ve always been a captain morgan person myself.

Mina: yeAH IT doesnt give me a hang ober

Mina: is why i prefer it

Mina: time to polish off the last glass brb

Mina pukes on T’s shoes.

Taragnor is glad this is an online game.

Melty: A “fifth” is 750mL, a “pint” is 375. 375 is almost exactly a pint IIRC but they’re all in metric now, they’re just called by what they used to be in imperial, cause people are used to it and it’s easier to say “gimme a fifth” than “gimme a 750 milliliter one”